Tobacco and match box.



PATENTED MAR. 19, 1907.

No. 847,458 H. A. ABEHAM.

ToBAGoo AND MATCH B0X.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15,1906.

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PATENTBD MAR. 19, 1907 E. A. BEHAM; TCBACCC AND MATCH B0X.

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lfrow, in the count HOWARD A. BErLAM, or RENFROW,

ONE-THIRD To JOSEPH A. .RiToRr Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 15,1906. Serial No. 821,922.

OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR OF GREG-AIRE, OF REN-FROW, OKLAHOMA` TER- TOBACCO AND MATCH Box.

Patented March 19, 19 u7.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I., HOWARD A. BEHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Renof Grant and Territory of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco and Match Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a handy receptacle for 'pocket use by 'smokers and adapted to-contam asupply of tobacco Fig. is a vertical section on the line and matches and including means whereby to facilitate filling a pipe or feeding the tobacco from the compartment provided therefor. A.

The invention also includes details of oo nstruction, which will appear more fully hereinaften For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for eifecting the result ureference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, inwhichn V Figure 1 is a perspectiveview'of a box embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line X X of Fig. l2. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line Y Y of Fig. 2. Z Z of Fig. 2.

Corresponding and like parts are referred f to in the following description and indicated in all the' views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates the body of the body is divided into a main compartment 2, adapted to contain tobacco and normally closed at its upper open end by 'means of a' cover or lid 3. The compartment 2 communicates with an outlet-passage 4, which extends longitudinally of the body 1 and which is open at one end, as shown at 5. The open end 5 of the passage 4 is closed normally', also, by means of a small hinged lid 6,

which operates in a cut-away portionv or recess 7 at the lower portion of the body 1.

he lid 6 is normally held closed by connection with a finger-piece 8, which is arranged in the upper portion of the body 1 in a simi lar recess 9 in line with the passage 4, but at the opposite end of the body 1.

A spring 10 is interposed between the under side of the compartment 12 is Asmoker or user of the box. the compartment 12 is closed by means of a,

box or reoeptacle,'and said4 finger-piece and the bottom of the recess 9 and normally tends to hold the finger-piece at the limit of its upward movement. The finger-piece 8 is connected-bye. short rod 11 with the lid 6, .and said lid is held, normally I closed by the spring', action of the spring 10 cooperating with the finger-piece 8.

It will be observed that the tobaccolin the compartment 2 will readilyfeed through the passage 4 to the open endof the-latter, and the smoker or user of the box or receptacle can readily depress the finger-piece 8 and by so doing open the lid 6 to permit theV tobacco to freely owfrom the outlet-opening 5 into apipe or otherwise. l.

ln connection withI the compartment which is used to receive the tobacco another transversely thereof, the latter being located adjacent to the outlet-openin 5'of-th'e.pas sage 4. The compartment 12 1s small, but of a suitable size to receive matches located convenient for use by the The outer end of sliding cover 13, which preferably consists of a plate having its longitudinal edge ortions formed with inturned flanges 14, sai .flanges engaging longitudinal guide -plates 15, attached to the box.

The upper end ofthe cover 13 may be outwhich to manipulate said cover.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. fA box or receptacle of the class described and comprising a body provided with acompartment adapted tov receive tobaccoor like material, said -body heilig formed provided and arrangeda quantity of with an outlet-passage in communicationA with the compartment above mentioned and open at one end, a lid closing the open end'of the passage, yand a sprin -actuated -fingerpiece connected with sai being formed with, a ,recess-in longitudinal' lid 1tonormally` hold the latter closed, the -body of thebox IOC alinement with the outlet-passage and receivj y ing the.ii1igerpiece with said is connected. o

2. A box or receptacle of the -class de-v scribed comprising a body having a main compartment adapted to receive tobacco or like material, said body being formed with a whichthe lid aforelongitudinal Outlet-passage at one side of the 85" turned to form a small finger-piece 16, by-

' the outlet-p assa compartment and communicating therewith, the outlet-passage being open atone end, a lid hinged to the body oi' the box and adapted to close the open end of the outlet-passage,

the body being provided wi th a'recess in lon gitudinal alinement with the 'outlet-passage,

-a s ring-actuated `iingerpiece operating in sai recess, and a rod connecting the fingerlto close the olpen end of the ontlet-passage, the body'being provided with a recess in lon gitudinal alinement with the outlet-passage, a s ring-actuated iiugerfpiece operating in' sai recess, a rod connecting the finger-piece with the lid whereby the latter is normally held closed by. the spring cooperating with the finger-piece, the main compartment aforesaid being provided with a supply-opening, and'acover for closing the supply-open ing of the main compartment.

V 0'e being open at one end, a lid hinged to thelbod)7 of the 'box and adapted l 4; A box or receptacle of the class deJ scribed comprising a body having 'a main compartment adapted to receive tobacco or like material, said body being formed with a longitudinal outlet-passage at one side 'of the compartment and communicating therewith,

the outlet-passage being open at one end, a lid hinged to the body of the box and adapted to close the open end of the outlet-passage, the body being provided with a recess in longitudinal alinement with the outletpassage, a spring-actuated finger-piece operating in said recess, rod connecting the finger-piece with the lid whereby the latter `is normally held closed bythe spring coi'ipcrating with the finger-piece, the main compartmen t aforesaid being provided with a supply-opening, a cover for closing thesupply-o ening of the'inain compartment, the box liaving a transversely-arranged match-holding co1nu patment adjacent to the main compartment, and a 11d or cover for normally closing an open end of said match-holding' compartment. y

- In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HOWARD A. BEHAM. [14. s.] Witnesses:

W. I. MANELA, E. E. BEHAM. 

